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The Switchgear Committee meets outside the JCTM and PES General Meeting and therefore plans theirown meetings. Although meetings are separate from other PES Technical Committees, the SwitchgearCommittee provides meeting accommodations for several outside entities during our scheduled meetings,including: IEC US National TAG Committee Short-Circuit Testing Liaison of the Nations of the Americas (STLNA) ANSI Accredited Standards Committee ASC C37 Utility Users Group MeetingThe Switchgear Committee also sponsors a Women in Engineering Luncheon at each of its face-to-facemeetings. Since its inception, this initiative has grown from 2 – 3 participants to approximately 15participants.Firm arrangements are in place for the next three (3) meetings plus the Fall 2023 meeting, as shownbelow. In a typical environment, there following table would be complete, however because of theCOVID-19 pandemic, many hotel staffers have been furloughed, and the ability to establish contracts hasbeen significantly impaired. We see that issue being resolved as 2020 closes, and our Meeting PlanningGroup is actively pursuing future locations for the coming years with a goal to book through 2024 by theend of calendar 2021.Meeting NameSpecific DatesMeeting LocationSpring 2021April 19 – 22, 2021Virtual MeetingsFall 2021October 10 – 14, 2021Peppermill ResortReno, Nevada, USASpring 2022April 17 – 21, 2022Disney’s Grand FloridianOrlando, Florida, USAFall 2022October 2 – 7, 2022;October 9 – 14, 2022; orOctober 16 – 21, 2022TBD (in negotiation)Spring 2023April 16 – 21, 2023;April 23 – 28, 2023; orApril 30 – May 5, 2023TBD (in negotiation)Fall 2023October 8 – 12, 2023Catamaran ResortSan Diego, California, USAIEEE PES Switchgear Committee -- Annual Report 2020Page 6

The Switchgear Committee meeting planning process continues to leverage resources from the IEEEMeetings, Conferences, and Events (MCE) organization. MCE personnel assist with the following: Identify potential meeting sites. Distribute RFQ to meeting facility/hotel properties where the Switchgear Committee wants tohold a meeting. Performing an initial review of all received proposals. Assisting with final contract negotiations with the chosen meeting facility/hotel property. Coordinating IEEE Legal of all Switchgear Committee contracts for meeting venues or otheractivities (such as social events held outside of the meeting venues).The Switchgear Committee does not utilize the IEEE MCE meeting planning / host. Instead, theSwitchgear Committee has established a standing position of “Meeting Planner” to coordinate with thehotel after the contract is signed to manage the sleeping rooms, meeting rooms, menus, and audio-visualneeds. The meeting planner role has enabled the switchgear committee to better manage meetingexpenses and is a major contributor to the overall financial health of the Switchgear Committee.The Switchgear Committee has been evaluating the possibility for hosting hybrid meetings (in-personand virtual components) moving forward. However, the Committee has not determined an economicalmeans of executing this type of meeting and will proceed with either “all in-person” or “all virtual”meetings moving forward. The primary drivers for this decision making are: Meeting hotel room-night commitments, and associated penalties. Meeting hotel food-and-beverage commitments, and associated penalties. Significant internet bandwidth issues at meeting venues. Substantial incremental audio-visual equipment (and equipment operator) costs associatedwith supporting the virtual attendees.WebsiteThe Switchgear Committee website continues to be updated to a more interesting format and includedaccess to minutes of past meetings (from 1990 to date) and many technical presentations. A template wascreated that the Switchgear Committee Subcommittees use to submit updated information. The templateis used by the webmaster for update of the Subcommittee website.IEEE PES Switchgear Committee -- Annual Report 2020Page 7

The Switchgear Committee website is still hosted on a legacy IEEE platform, and has not migrated to therecently available WordPress option. If Tech Council standardizes on new website templates it mayprove beneficial to migrate to WordPress, however given the current situation, the migration has beendeemed an unnecessary burden on the Committee Webmaster and is unplanned.iMeet Central (formerly Central Desktop)Switchgear Committee officers use iMeet Central to store important Committee related documentsincluding items such as meeting contracts, meeting planning information, and Committee procedures.Using iMeet Central to store this information ensures each officer has access to the documents thatofficer may need. This reduces the need to contact other officers and request specific information, andfacilitates information sharing during officer rotation.The officers have found that using iMeet Central is an excellent tool and highly recommends otherTechnical Council Committees also considering using it.iMeet Central is being used by a few Working Groups and training is planned for Fall 2021 or Spring2022 to promote use by Working Groups.Virtual Meeting ToolsThe COVID-19 pandemic led to the cancelling of all 2020 face-to-face meetings, however theSwitchgear Committee has taken advantage of the virtual meeting services offered by IEEE SA and TechCouncil. Switchgear Committee has been utilizing a hybrid of 1) the Tech Council Webex accountsand 2) member Webex and Microsoft Teams accounts for all non-standards related meetings. Switchgear Committee has been utilizing a hybrid of 1) the IEEE SA Webex accounts and 2)member Webex and Microsoft Teams accounts for all standards related meetings.The Switchgear Committee has been grateful for the abundance of virtual meeting resources that havebeen made available to the Committee, including the extremely helpful Webex tutorials andinformational sheets provided by IEEE SA.The Switchgear Committee Spring 2020 and Fall 2020 virtual meetings were self-organized andoperated, with meeting schedules secured behind firewalls – restricting access to only registeredattendees.IEEE PES Switchgear Committee -- Annual Report 2020Page 8

2. Benefits to Industry and PES Members from the Committee Work:The Switchgear Committee creates and maintains standards that benefit the stakeholders in many ways,including but not limited to: Users, producers, testing firms, and third-party certification bodies benefit by having performancerequirements that are consistent and that give confidence that products carrying equal ratingsexhibit equal performance. Users and producers benefit by having known performance-oriented requirements rather than roteconstruction mandated (but not necessarily performance-oriented) requirements. This allowsproducers to introduce new technologies that produce equal performance without conflicting witharbitrary standards-mandated construction requirements. Users, producers, testing firms, and third-party certification bodies benefit from having relativelystable standards for products, as revisions of standards are generally made except at intervals ofseven to ten years. Users, producers, testing firms, and third-party certification bodies benefit from the creation ofnew standards covering areas previously not addressed in standards, such as testing of equipmentunder conditions of internal arcing faults, special interrupting applications such as transformerlimited faults, and conversions of existing equipment to accommodate newer technologies.Switchgear Committee members spoke at IEEE local chapter meetings discussing Switchgear Committeework in Arizona, Missouri, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Texas. These opportunities broughtawareness to industry issues, facilitated discussions, and encouraging involvement in IEEE.3. Benefits to Volunteer Participants from the Committee Work:Participation in standards activities provides a solid basis for education of new participants, whileproviding a forum to capture the knowledge of experienced participants.First and foremost, the Switchgear Committee Officers would like to recognize that the Committee hasparticipation by a significant number of persons who have formally retired from the business world, yetcontinue to participate, in several cases without financial support from their former employer or someother firm. It is reasonable to surmise that such individuals would not do so except that participationprovides them some measure of satisfaction, however their depth of knowledge and “mentoringmentality” provide a tremendous benefit to the Committee membership and guests.Participants in the standards process benefit from recognition within their employer organizations as“experts” in their technical field, and particularly if they participate in some officer capacity in workinggroups or in the committee structure.IEEE PES Switchgear Committee -- Annual Report 2020Page 9

The Switchgear Committee provides recognition to working group members and committee officers,typically with a plaque when standards are published. The participants are also recognized in the frontmatter of the document.The Committee hosts a minimum of two educational seminars/tutorials (free-of-charge) during the courseof each of its Spring and Fall meetings. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Committee choseto forego these seminars for 2020. This provides meeting participants with free training on current topics.Switchgear Committee meetings are a gathering of industry experts across academia, governmentregulators, third-party certifiers, consultants, specifiers, end users, and manufacturers. As a result, thereare tremendous opportunities to network with a wide variety of expertise and from a wide array of globalregions. Not only are there great social opportunities, but the discussions often facilitate best practicediscussions between individuals from all around the world.With a new program that started in Fall 2019, the Switchgear Committee started issuing professionaldevelopment hours (PDHs) through the IEEE Certificate s/offerings.html). While each certificate costs the Committee 5 (USD), the Committee has absorbed that expense and does not pass the fees along to attendees. TheSwitchgear Committee officers feel that this is a tremendous value to the attendees. For the Spring 2020 meeting, 45 individuals (approximately 20% of the attendees) wereaccredited with for a combined 469 professional development hours. For the Fall 2020 meeting, 48 individuals (approximately 20% of the attendees) wereaccredited with for a combined 581 professional development hours.The Switchgear Committee recommends that the promotion of such benefits to potential participants,particularly users who struggle to secure management support for Committee activities, both financialand time. The Switchgear Committee has taken action to support participants with a simple one-page“brochure” detailing the virtues of Committee participation as well as a justification letter template thatmay be used by participants.IEEE PES Switchgear Committee -- Annual Report 2020Page 10

4. Recognition of Outstanding Performance:Education, Recognition, and Publication (ER&P) Subcommittee oversees all the activities related tonominations, recognitions, awards, prizes, and certificates of appreciation for exceptional individuals andgroups. Annually ER&P considers nominations for the following awards: PES Prize Paper award PES Outstanding WG award PES Award for outstanding Standard or Guide TC award for prize paper TC award for outstanding service to the Committee TC award for outstanding Working Group.The Switchgear Committee was honored to recognize Dave Gohil (long-time member) this year as IEEELife Senior Member. This brings the Switchgear Committee member count as “Senior Life Member” (orgreater) to six: Roy Alexander, Fellow Life Membero Former Switchgear Committee Chairo Honorary Membero Current Working Group Chair Pat Delilo, Senior Life Member Denis Dufournet, Fellow Life Member Dave Gohil, Senior Life Member Ted Olsen, Senior Life Membero Former Switchgear Committee Chairo Honorary Member Dean Sigmon, Senior Life Membero Former Switchgear Committee Chairo Former Standards Coordinatoro Honorary MemberIEEE PES Switchgear Committee -- Annual Report 2020Page 11

In 2020 we elevated 20 active participants to “Member” status within the Switchgear Committee bringingtotal membership to 103 ( 13 living honorary members). The change in membership status was inrecognition of the contributions from each individual, reflected in recommendations from SubcommitteeChairs. In 2020, we did not add any Honorary Members.In addition, all outgoing officers, including subcommittee chairs, are presented with certificates ofappreciation. The ER&P Officers agreed to delay all award presentations until calendar 2021, where weexpect to be resuming face-to-face meetings prior to year-end.ER&P stimulates and encourages nominations for Senior Membership of IEEE and IEEE Fellows. Ourcontinuous push to encourage Committee members to become Senior Members has resulted in numerouspeople receiving that accomplishment. Numerous Switchgear Committee people were elevated to SeniorMember in 2020. Senior Members are recognized through special ribbons on name badges worn duringthe Committee face to face meetings. ER&P continues to work to nominate appropriate SwitchgearCommittee attendees for IEEE Fellow. An IEEE Fellows nominating group was created to identifypotential fellows from our membership and to support the process for nomination.ER&P oversees the paper review process for all papers that relate to Switchgear Committee technicalareas, whether for conferences such as the IEEE PES T&D, the PES General Meeting, for Transactions,or other publications.5. Coordination with Other Entities (PES Committees, CIGRE, standards, etc.):Historically, the Switchgear Committee has invested heavily in collaboration with other entities. Year2020 was no exception to that model.ANSI ASC C37NEMA holds the secretariat position with a number of ANSI certified industry standards relating to thedesign testing and conformance testing of switchgear and switchgear devices. These standards aresponsored by Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) C37. Currently there are 13 SwitchgearCommittee delegates to ASC C37, providing strong member representation and coordination/cooperationwith this technical committee.ANSI ASC C84In 2019, the Switchgear Committee submitted a position letter to ANSI ASC C84 in response tosuggested changes to the maximum operating voltage limits defined in ANSI C84.1. The lettersummarized concerns created by increasing the maximum voltage to 110% of nominal voltage inindustrial control and utility applications. In 2020, subsequent to the Switchgear Committee statement,other organizations echoed their agreement with Switchgear, and the proposed changes wereunanimously rejected by the ANSI ASC C84 Committee. Additionally, three members of the SwitchgearCommittee were added as members to the ANSI ASC C84 Technical Committee.IEEE PES Switchgear Committee -- Annual Report 2020Page 12

CIGRESwitchgear Committee keeps a close liaison with CIGRE Study Committee A3 (High VoltageEquipment). Many of the Switchgear Committee members are active in A3, however, Nenad Uzelac(Technology and Innovation Chair) is an official US Representative to CIGRE SC A3 and was elevatedto convener in 2018, as well as the liaison between IEEE Switchgear Committee and CIGRE A3.EUSERC and NEMAUtility metering compartments vary from region-to-region. Electric Utility Service EquipmentRequirements Committee (EUSERC), National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), and theSwitchgear Committee have partnered to form a PAR Study Group investigating the feasibility ofdeveloping a common set of requirements for utility metering compartments. This activity was approvedat the Fall 2020 meeting, beginning work in 2021.IEEE Industrial Application Society (IAS)The Switchgear Committee has historically had much unofficial involvement within the IEEE IndustrialApplication Society – in particular the annual Electrical Safety Workshop and annual Petroleum andChemical Industry Committee (PCIC) conference. The Switchgear Committee and IAS further builtupon this relationship in 2020 with an agreement to co-sponsor: IEEE Std 2969: Guide for Continuous Thermal Monitoring of Switchgear and Motor ControlCenters up to 52kVIEEE High-Voltage Test Techniques (HVTT)A PAR has been submitted for a revision to IEEE Std C37.301, Partial Discharge Measurements. Aworking group has been formed, and the Committee has received considerable support and participationfrom HVTT – including occupying the Secretary role of the working group.IEEE PES Switchgear Committee -- Annual Report 2020Page 13

IEEE PES Substations CommitteeThe following standards are co-sponsored between the Switchgear Committee and the SubstationsCommittee: IEEE Std C37.100.7: Guide for the Performance Characteristics of Alternative Gases IEEE Std C37.122: IEEE Standard for High Voltage Gas-Insulated Substations Rated Above52 kV IEEE Std C37.122.2 IEEE Guide for the Application of Gas-Insulated Substations 1 kV to52 kV IEEE Std C37.122.3 IEEE Guide for Sulphur Hexafluoride (SF6) Gas Handling for HighVoltage (over 1000Vac) Equipment IEEE Std C37.20.9, Metal Enclosed Switchgear Rated 1kV to 52 kV Incorporating GasInsulation Systems P2829 Guide for Handling Non-Sulphur Hexafluoride (SF6) Gas Mixtures for High VoltageEquipment IEEE Std C37.017 IEEE Standard for Bushings for High-Voltage [over 1000 V (ac)] CircuitBreakers and Gas-Insulated SwitchgearIEEE PES Transformers CommitteeThe following standards are co-sponsored between the Switchgear Committee and the TransformersCommittee: IEEE Std C57.12.30 Standard for Pole-Mounted Equipment--Enclosure Integrity for CoastalEnvironments IEEE Std C57.12.31 Standard for Pole-Mounted Equipment – Enclosure Integrity IEEE Std C57.142 Guide to Describe the Occurrence and Mitigation of Switching TransientsInduced by Transformers, Switching Device, and System InteractionIEEE SCC 14 Quantities, Units and Letter SymbolsThe Switchgear Committee recognizes the benefits on standardization of units and systems ofmeasurement. To that end, three (3) Switchgear Committee members are active members of SCC 14,with two having been elevated to Chair and Vice-Chair of SCC 14, and Working Group Chair/Secretaryof three (3) associated standards (IEEE Std 280, IEEE Std 945 and IEEE Std 1541).IEEE PES Switchgear Committee -- Annual Report 2020Page 14

IEEE SCC 21The Switchgear Committee has also actively monitored IEEE 1547 and IEEE 1547.1 for influence onswitchgear standards. Many of the voltage regulation issues noted by the ANSI ASC C84 Committeeoriginated with the IEEE Std 1547 and the IEEE Std 1547.x series. Several joint discussion groupmeetings have occurred, and the IEEE SCC 21 and Switchgear Committee leadership are workingtowards forming a joint task force to review and recommend solutions for mitigating the overvoltageconcerns.IECThe Switchgear Committee hosts working sessions of the IEC U.S. National Technical Advisory Group(TAG), with a number of Switchgear Committee members serving as active liaisons to IEC.Additionally, a number of projects and standards ar

IEEE Std C57.142 Eldridge Byron 1 Liaison Substations Committee IEEE Std C37.122.2 Eldridge Byron 2 Liaison Substations Committee IEEE Std C37.122.3 George Becker 1 Liaison Substations Committee IEEE Std C37.122.9 George Becker 2 Liaison Substations Committee IEEE Std C37.122.10 Keith Flowers Liaison